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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Erin Fitz-Henry Abstract In this article I pose a series of questions about the relationships between the temporal rhythms of late capitalism and the flourishing of those relational “onto-epistemologies” so celebrated by recent theorists of the ontological turn. Bringing together recent research...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in the right direction—but as indigenous scholar Zoe Todd points out, with regard to the ontological turn in anthropology, the spaces that contemporary Western social theory moves into are not necessarily empty (Todd, ”Indigenous Feminist’s Take”). 87. For a video of the keynote, see “Ursula K. Le Guin...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
... wondered, How to account for plants and their agency? What is evidence of vegetal politics? What is a multispecies ethnographer doing when decentering the human in relation to garden plants, beyond what is un- done ontologically? This article situates itself in the plant turn and proposes a methodology...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 162–180.
Published: 01 July 2023
... : Random House , 2010 . Todd Zoe . “ An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word for Colonialism .” Journal of Historical Sociology 29 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 4 – 22 . Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt . The Mushroom at the End of the World...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 169–186.
Published: 01 May 2013
... are, in effect, social atoms. Curiously, 20 th -century philosophy has largely turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the vast philosophical implications of the second scientific revolution in 20 th -century science, among them a correlative moral ontology of internal relations and social wholes. The environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and representability of sea ontologies, wet matter, and transcorporeal engagements with the more-than-human world. This work generally focuses on a universalized ocean (as nonhuman nature) rather than a geographically and culturally specific place (as history). The authors’ work turns the visual focus from the surface...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 181–194.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of vitalist philosophy differs significantly from Karen Barad’s reinterpretation of Niels Bohr, which, in turn, differs from Elizabeth Grosz’ reinterpretation of Darwin. Notwithstanding their diverging conceptual inspirations, however, these scholars all push back against textualist ontologies...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the significance of the Cá Ông tradition in the light of scholarship on animism, challenging the claim, made by some scholars, that animist ontologies provide an antidote to destructive Western epistemological traditions and corresponding extractivist structures. Since the turn of the twenty-first century...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
... distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Indigenous thought ontological turn Anthropocene insects biodiversity conservation Insects are a particularly special companion animal for investigating human perceptions of nature and “human nature.” Their group...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
...’ geographies, the article asks how microorganisms might express their own directives, preferences, and constraints on the research process, and how, in turn, we might listen and be directed by them. Although the ontological and ethical commitments of the environmental humanities are well suited for welcoming...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 142–161.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that belong to different ontologies. The uncomfortable entanglement of neoliberal and environmental ontologies also informs the environmental humanities’ increasing interest in fungi. While it is arguably too early to speak of a veritable “mycological turn,” an imaginative investment in fungi as utopian...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the nascent field of paleoenvironmental humanities, this article’s approach to questions of care and responsibility turns from future horizon-scanning to the realm of human origins. It focuses on two broad sets of paleo stories that share a concern with rifts or stress points that complicate originary events...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of these worlds also need tending. Reading Métis scholar Zoe Todd’s essay “An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn,” we note how her concern for the erasure of indigenous thought in the so-called ontological turn parallels our arguments in relation to environmental humanities and feminism. Todd...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 401–418.
Published: 01 July 2022
... core assumptions about biology, life, and what is distinctively human must be rethought. My current work marks a turn from ontology to ethics. How Forests Think aimed to say that a thinking forest is no mere metaphor, but the planetary ecological crisis we are facing has led me to realize...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... , and Power Elaine M. , 55 – 67 . New York : Fordham University Press , 2019 . Todd Zoe . “ An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ is Just Another Word for Colonialism .” Journal of Historical Sociology 29 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 4 – 22 . Tracy Megan...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 243–260.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word for Colonialism .” Journal of Historical Sociology 29 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 4 – 22 . Travis Frederick . Your Brain Is a River, Not a Rock . Self-published, CreateSpace , 2012 . Trisos Christopher H. , Auerbach...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 142–161.
Published: 01 March 2024
... or two hundred year old philosophical tomes.” 68 Todd urges scholars—especially those taking part in what has been called the “ontological turn”—to seek out and cite Indigenous knowledge over Western knowledge. Even while offering a radical alternative to human timescales, geological deep time...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., “Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn”; and Sundberg, “Decolonizing Posthumanist Geographies.” 22. See the contribution by Despret and Meuret in this issue. 23. Haraway, Companion Species Manifesto . 24. Kirksey, “Species”; Rose and van Dooren, “Encountering a More-than-Human...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 375–384.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in its crossing of the border separating the United States and Mexico despite the politics of migration. The nature of human connectedness to other beings has been of pronounced analytical interest in multispecies anthropology, in studies of cosmology, in the ontological turn in anthropology...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in Paulatuuq, Arctic Canada .” Études/Inuit/Studies 38 , nos. 1–2 ( 2015 ): 217 – 38 . https://doi.org/10.7202/1028861ar . Todd Zoe . “ An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word for Colonialism .” Journal of Historical Sociology 29 , no. 1...
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